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So. The files are kind of still there... Just windows doesnt know because their not 'in' a partition...... Is there any othr way to get them back
Partition is 750GB So 750*1024*256 clusters of 4KB each. so total of 196 608 000 clusters!! A 400kB file uses 100 out of 196 608 000 clusters!! But you don't know which ones. Recovery software don't know anymore:
Can you reconstruct 10000 puzzles out of 196 608 000 pieces? All pieces are same size and square and you don't know how the puzzles look like.
- file names
- is it a doc, xls, jpg file
- size of file
- blocks it uses
Impossible as far as I know
Yes your right... Do you know if Greg will know anything?
Yes ask Greg. He has a lot of knowledge about.... just everything.
I just read details about NTFS... The MFT mirror is most likely still on disk. And maybe can be recovered.
Ask Greg
I specialize in the automated fixes which work best for consumers. I provided the solution which works best for this and thought it had been run right off, but now it appears other things were tried first possibly interfering.
At this point it may require your more advanced disk knowledge, Kaktussoft.
He did "diskpart clean" which did zero 1MB of physical disk. Afterwards he tried to recover the partitions using PW. It only found partition 2,3,4 and some fake 3MB partitions. He did recover one of the real partitions (I think partition 2). As far as I know he didn't do anything with the problem partition.
OP please confirm
Word by word. Exactly what happened.
I'm wondering what he ran before running PW Recovery Wizard, which might have interfered. I thought he as running it and find out a day later he was running other apps first.
In the past after Clean command PW Partition Recovery wizard was able to recover the entire disk, as I recall, including the boot sector.
Ok i ran findandmount. Testdisk and minitool power power data recovery and the one sujjested by you